ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not accented or stressed; unemphasized.

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  Hence (in recent use) unaccentedness.

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1598.  Florio, Disaccentato, vnaccented, without an accent or due sound.

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1728.  Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Accent, Every Bar or Measure is divided into accented and unaccented Parts.

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1768.  Phil. Trans., LVIII. 256. As neither the Samnites nor the Etruscans had in their alphabet O, they used the simple unaccented V for that element.

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1808.  L. Murray, Eng. Gram., I. 332. Unaccented syllables are generally short.

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1873.  H. C. Banister, Music, 12. In all measures, certain beats are accented, and the others unaccented.

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1893.  Nation (N.Y.), 12 Jan., 33/3. His outline drawings … are round and unaccented, and show little sense of structure.

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